{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Healthy Spaces","title":"Built Differently: The New Rules of Data Center Design","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1801,"description":"How do you engineer data center cooling infrastructure, when AI capacity is constantly evolving? \n  \nAI is transforming the technology inside data centers at an extraordinary pace, but the infrastructure that it relies on is built to last for decades. As demand for AI continues to grow, so do compute requirements and heat generation, creating new challenges, and opportunities, around how teams design, power and cool data centers sustainably. \n  \nIn this episode, we hear from Oakley Roberts, President of Data Centers at Trane Technologies, discussing the shifting engineering and technology landscape. He explores how teams build data center infrastructure for changing needs by adapting cooling systems to different climates, balancing liquid and air cooling, reducing water use, and designing modular systems. \n  \nMichael Winterson, Secretary General of the European Data Centre Association, expands the conversation to the broader infrastructure and policy picture. He discusses Europe's ambitious plans to expand data center capacity and the questions that growth raises around grid capacity, energy, regulation and decarbonization. Michael explores what it will take to support that expansion, and how policy and infrastructure will need to evolve alongside it. \n  \nTogether, they reveal a bigger shift in how we think about data center infrastructure. The future isn’t just about building more of the same or pushing for more technology and standardization. It’s about balancing repeatability and flexibility and designing smarter systems that can be deployed at speed, while adapting to changing technologies, local environments, and the broader systems around them. \n  \nEPISODE CHAPTERS \n00:00 Introduction - Why the era of the standard data center is over \n01:03 Engineering flexibility \n03:26 How AI is changing data center cooling \n06:45 Rethinking data center water usage \n08:00 Designing now for an uncertain future \n10:28 Can policy keep up with data center growth? \n11:36...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/EWG6ZnM49FIe0Yy22Amb1KSChry1WZmpnrrC9-UXzGI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE2Mzc1LzE2ODYw/MzY2MDctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}